LONDON CITY NIGHTS

Give Me the Sun reviewed by David JamesRating: Opening a play titled Give Me the Sun this week is like putting something out called 'Cough in My Face' at the height of COVID. It's not a great time to be sat inside...

Reviewed by David JamesRating: It's adorable looking back at the 1980s "video nasties". The idea that something like Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead was ever a danger to anyone is absurd. Even so, 1980s tabloids breathlessly assured the public that exposure...

Outside reviewed by David JamesRating: Broken people and bad times are my kinda theatre, and in Outside writer/director/actor Gabrielle MacPherson serves up a positively bulging smorgasbord of misery, violence, revenge and despair. I don’t know why I’m so attracted to stories...

Not Lady Chatterley's Lover reviewed by David JamesRating: There's a brand of bourgeois British comedy that I find as fun as having needles jammed under my fingernails. Think Radio 4 on a Sunday afternoon, a 7pm ITV sitcom, or Carry On....

iMelania reviewed by David JamesRating: First thoughts were that a play about Melania Trump might have missed the bus. After all, with Joe Biden in the White House and a whole new set of problems tearing the world apart, who...

Bad Nights and Odd Days reviewed by David JamesRating: As the lockdowns lift and theatres open their creaking doors, dust down their stages, and warm up the lights, it's forgivable that there's a hell of a lot of plays on...

Bad Nights and Odd Days reviewed by David JamesRating: As the dreary lockdown months stretched on I struggled with the itch that only theatre can scratch: breathing the same air and occupying the same space as fictional characters, traveling to...